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Facing our Fears: A Review of Distant Thunder
May 18th, 201212:18 AM ETIn this expanded review that appears on Amazon.com., former Foreign Service Officer in the US Department of State turned novelist, Ann Gaylia O'Barr, incorporates her experiences and love for travel--especially train rides--into the engaging novel, Distant Thunder. In a society that reveres youth arguably to a fault, Ms. O'Barr challenges tha... -
Christianity’s Competition
April 20th, 201212:12 AM ETEthnic, political, and religious differences divide much of the world today, including the United States. Global travel and instant communication force local lifestyles and centuries-old beliefs to compete with other lifestyles and beliefs. Travelers before the modern era took months to travel from one area to another. Most people did not travel a... -
Gray Rainbow Journey Reveals the Struggles of Native Christians
April 16th, 201212:35 AM ETHaving spent several years in other cultures, naturally I was attracted to Gray Rainbow Journey, by K.B. Schaller. Gray Rainbow Journey is the story of a young Native American woman, Dina Youngblood, who struggles with the call of Christ. Is Jesus the White man’s God? Must she give up all her Native American traditions if she chooses the Chr... -
Brush Your Teeth, Eat Your Vegetables, and Other Quaint Sayings
March 29th, 201212:00 AM ET"No cavities, Mom", I wanted to shout as I rose from the dentist chair after my six-month checkup. In raising me, my parents stressed the old admonitions: brush your teeth, eat your vegetables, look both ways before crossing the street, share with others, and so on. Only now do I realize how much I owe them for my current health and happiness. I r... -
A Divorce Between Secular and Religious?
March 16th, 201212:06 AM ETToday's literature tends to be divided, like much of our culture, between secular and religious. The two types usually are marketed to different audiences. Religious fiction may be Jewish or Buddhist or from another religion, of course, but the Christian market has grown remarkably over the past few decades. In a desire to reach secular readers, w... -
To Understand Each Other Instead Of Wars
March 02nd, 201212:49 AM ETWhen I was about eleven, I became a pen pal of a girl my age from the European country of Austria, through an acquaintance of my father. We wrote for many years, until both of us married and she moved to Germany with her husband. I was going through old letters recently and came across some written by her, in beautiful script in English. Like many... -
On Looking Into Jane Austen’s World
February 23rd, 201212:00 AM ETI just finished reading Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James. It's something of a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and is set in the same time period, the early nineteenth century. The book's protagonists are a long way from Adam Dalgliesh, the investigator in James' detective series. Yet the characters still engage in broodin... -
Beneath Diversity, A Comforting Order
February 16th, 201212:26 AM ETAs winter began this year, my husband and I rented lodging on the far edge of the wild Olympic peninsula. No telephone, no television, no Internet. Out the window a few yards away, the boiling Pacific Ocean crashed onto the beach. We scanned the sculpted rocks and the writhing horizon that took away our breath with its beauty. We stayed only a few... -
Blaming God
February 03rd, 201212:00 AM ETOur island community grieved deeply (and is still grieving) when a tree fell on a car driven by a family on the way to a relative's house on Christmas Day, causing death and injury. Could God not have stopped that tragedy? Could have but wouldn't? Would have but couldn't? When I was about four, I was happily walking through a field of clover when ... -
Which? “Be Careful What You Ask For” or “Ask and You Shall Receive”?
January 04th, 201212:06 AM ETLong ago and far away during a dark time in my life when it seemed I had no calling and would never know joy or purpose again, I took comfort in a book by Elisabeth Elliot, A Slow and Certain Light. Elisabeth Elliot's first husband, Jim Elliot, was slain as he began a ministry to the Aucas in Ecuador in 1956. I searched for God's leading out ...
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